Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:13:13 -0600 (CST) From: Wayne Baety <mrfoine@enteract.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Dave Hummel <HUMMDN36@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from floppy only Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970404020959.13534C-100000@enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970401140600.3988B-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > > > I've found alot of messages about this in the archives, but I'm still rather > > clueless on this... > > I have a network machine that runs win95 during business hours and I want to > > run FreeBSD on it. I do not want FreeBSD to be visible to the normal user, so I > > want to make it bootable by floppy only. If I use disklabel to make a bootable > > floppy I gather from what I read that I can tell the boot to look for the > > kernel on the FreeBSD partition, which is a IDE harddrive that has been split > > using fips. Would the proper syntax be boot: wd(0,a)/kernel > > Would another (thew proper?) option be to put the kernel on the floppy and then > > to mount the FreeBSD partition? > > You can't fit a decent system on a floppy. You can use the boot floppy > and the auxiliary fixit floppy image to make a two-disk startup that will > get you a few basics. Also check Handbook section 10.5.9.5 for making an > emergency disk. i think he just wants to use the floppy for the boot program so that he can switch the boot to a hard disk partition...and at the same tame keeping the hard disk partition hidden so that it doesnt display the F1 bsd F2 dos, etc. is that possible? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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